NAVIGATING A COURSE FOR GROWTH 2011 ANNUAL REPORT The first thing every student navigator learns is that in order to get where you’re going you absolutely must know where you are. Armed with this knowledge, captain and crew can expertly understand and manage the many variables that affect any vessel at sea – winds and waves, tides and currents, experience and equipment. With this knowledge, they quickly convert challenges into opportunities to arrive at any destination on the Seven Seas with maximum performance and efficiency, and minimal time and cost. At GulfMark Offshore, we’ve kept a weather eye on the cyclical trends in the offshore oil and gas industry to ensure that as our production partners step up activities in key regions around the world – some new, some long established – we’re standing by and ready to go on shore and on deck. We have the right people, the right vessels, the right equipment and the experience to enable offshore operators to capitalize quickly, efficiently and safely on emerging opportunities in a fast-changing environment. For more than two decades, we’ve plotted a course for growth built around understanding what our clients need now and in the dynamic times ahead. We’ve held our bearing with optimum precision to ensure that we continue to set the highest standards for operating performance, even in the harshest of environments. By doing so, we can help our customers achieve strategic success under almost any conditions. We’ve been navigating a course for consistent, strong and stable growth from day one. Working side by side with operators of all sizes and types, in all corners of the globe, we’re now ideally positioned to keep a steady helm, and help customers achieve their goals wherever, whenever and however charted. Jossian Brito, Chief Engineer– MV Highland Scout Michael Jones, A.B.– MV Jermaine Gibson GulfMark Offshore, Inc. provides marine transportation services to the energy industry through a fleet of offshore support vessels serving every major offshore energy industry market in the world. Financial Highlights Years Ended December 31, 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 OPERATING DATA ($000) Revenue $ 381,870 $ 359,766 $ 388,871 $ 411,740 $ 306,026 Direct operating expenses 182,585 170,638 166,183 143,925 108,386 Drydock expense 15,932 22,182 15,696 11,319 12,606 General and administrative expenses 45,495 44,029 43,700 40,244 32,311 Depreciation and amortization 59,586 56,959 53,044 44,300 30,623 Impairment charge 1,750 97,665 46,247 — — Gain on sale of assets (2,018) (5,095) (5,552) (34,811) (12,169) Operating income (loss) 78,540 (26,612) 69,553 206,763 134,269 Interest income 748 985 377 1,446 3,147 Interest expense (22,314) (21,693) (20,281) (14,291) (7,923) Other income (expense), net (2,346) (126) (1,153) 1,609 (298) Income tax benefit (provision) (4,694) 12,701 2,087 (11,743) (30,220) Net Income (loss) $ 49,934 $ (34,745) $ 50,583 $ 183,784 $ 98,975 SHARES OUTSTANDING (000)1 25,962 25,519 25,447 24,319 23,059 PER SHARE DATA ($) Net Income $ 1.91 $ (1.36) $ 1.96 $ 7.47 $ 4.24 Stockholders’ equity 38.40 37.07 38.81 35.15 29.32 BALANCE SHEET DATA ($000) Cash and cash equivalents $ 128,817 $ 97,195 $ 92,079 $ 100,761 $ 40,119 Vessels and equipment, net2 1,180,548 1,194,200 1,204,416 1,169,513 754,000 Total assets 1,499,799 1,468,649 1,565,659 1,556,967 934,012 Long-term debt 305,830 293,095 326,361 462,941 159,558 Total stockholders’ equity 996,860 945,957 987,468 854,843 676,091 OTHER DATA Vessels in the fleet at year end3 90 88 92 94 61 Rates per day worked ($) North Sea Based Fleet $ 20,071 $ 16,985 $ 19,930 $ 22,837 $ 24,120 Southeast Asia Based Fleet $ 15,053 $ 16,943 $ 20,780 $ 17,723 $ 10,276 Americas Based Fleet $ 14,526 $ 14,281 $ 16,098 $ 16,567 $ 11,386 Overall Utilization North Sea Based Fleet 92.4% 93.5% 88.8% 94.6% 92.8% Southeast Asia Based Fleet 85.1% 84.7% 90.0% 94.5% 93.3% Americas Based Fleet 80.5% 80.1% 73.3% 93.4% 94.9% Average Owned or Chartered Vessels North Sea Based Fleet 24.8 25.1 24.8 27.2 28.8 Southeast Asia Based Fleet 14.0 13.0 11.5 13.0 12.0 Americas Based Fleet 35.0 35.3 35.0 19.3 6.0 Total 73.8 73.4 71.3 59.5 46.8 1 Weighted average diluted 2 Includes construction in progress 3 Managed plus owned or chartered vessels To our valued stockholders T he fastest route from Point A to Point B We ended the year with $128.8 million in cash on hand, which isn’t always a straight line. gives us the flexibility we need to move quickly to respond to fast- changing needs offshore. We spent $36.6 million during 2011 on It’s no secret to our valued customers, employees and our new construction program. As discussed later, this includes the stockholders that we work in one of the world’s most volatile addition of seven revolutionary new Platform Supply Vessels (PSVs) businesses. The key to success, we believe, and have proven to be completed by 2014, along with modifications to existing vessels repeatedly, is to be nimble and agile. More important, we have in our fleet. In total, our capital expenditures for the year were to be nimble and agile with a strategy. $52.3 million. We regard the additions and changes we are making We must be able to alter course when necessary to now as new revenue-producing assets for the foreseeable future. accommodate each new challenge or opportunity. We have to allow for the normal set and drift of the world’s oceans. This means Weathering the storms and emerging ideally keeping a constant lookout for fluctuations that are as normal as the positioned for success. constantly shifting seas, while at all times remaining sharply focused As we track steadily into 2012, we’re seeing an industry that has on our destinations. largely emerged from the uncertainties and challenges of the past We are pleased to say that our ability to operate effectively has several years. Beyond passively watching, we’ve taken the opportunity once again enabled us to turn in a year of increased growth and to use the recent past to envision and plan for the growth ahead. profitability. We achieved steady, predictable financial results in times Although we’d like to say we have a crystal ball or some amazing of tumultuous seas. ability to foretell the future, the simple truth is we listen, we learn, we GulfMark Offshore weathered the storm in the offshore study, we ask, and we work very closely with all of our customers. industry extremely well during 2011. Our consolidated revenue for These range from small independent producers to major global the year was $381.9 million, a 6 percent increase over the year companies and national oil companies. Collectively, this gives a clear, before. Our net income for the year was $49.9 million, or $1.91 per focused picture of 2012 and the years to follow. diluted share. By understanding, for instance, that there are currently orders We believe that our overall performance points to an improving placed for more than 200 offshore rigs, many of them designed for market for us during 2012. While 2011 revenues were up 16 percent extremely harsh weather conditions, we know that now is the right in the North Sea region, but down for the year in Southeast Asia, we time to invest in developing the right vessels so they will be available were pleased to see revenues for the Americas up slightly for the year, in the right places when those rigs are launched. signaling what we see as the beginning of the recovery in the U.S. Over the past year, the input we have gathered enabled us Gulf of Mexico. We believe this increase will continue throughout the to confidently place orders for seven new PSVs based on our coming year. revolutionary designs, primarily for the cold and harsh fields in REVENUE DEBT STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY ($ in millions) ($ in millions) ($ in millions) $500 $400 $1,000 $400 $800 $300 $300 $600 $200 $200 $400 $100 $100 $200 20082007 2009 2010 2011 Q3 2010 Q4 2010 Q1 2011 Q2 2011 Q3 2011 Q4 2011 20082007 2009 2010 2011 the North Sea, and even for latitudes farther north. The cutting-edge design work we did on the PSVs ordered four years ago has helped to create an all-new approach and different way of thinking about how workboats should be designed and built for the extreme weather in some of these new areas. T he real GulfMark Offshore difference? People. Plain and simple. Bruce Streeter David Butters The rapid spurt in growth in offshore fields all around the globe “stretched” three of our existing PSVs by cutting each vessel in half, has placed a premium on the most highly skilled and experienced beam-to-beam, and adding a sizeable new mid-body extension. This people. Without our people, even the most futuristic of our vessels allows us to safely and efficiently carry larger, heavier cargoes and is little more than many thousands of tons of steel plates welded remain on station longer.